Means for drying the interior of vats, &amp;c.



.No. 967,548. PATENTED'OGT. 1; 1907.

J. H. BEGKMAN.

MEANS FOR DRYING THE INTERIOR 0F VATS, &0. APPLICATION FILED MAR.13, 1907.

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MEANS FOR DRYING THE INTERIOR OF VATS, 850.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct, 1, 1907.

Application filed March 13, 1907. Serial No. 362,234.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JACOB H. BECKMAN, a citizen of the United States of America, and a resident of the city of Seattle, in the county of King and State of Washington, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Means for Drying the Interior of Vats or the Like, of which the following is a specification.

One of the objects of my invention is the provision of a device of the above type through the medium of which heat can be distributed and the lower portion of vats or the like, used in brewing, so as to thoroughly dry the same prior to the application of the coating of parafiin to render the same water proof.

Further objects will be set forth as the description progresses and'those features of the construction upon which I desire protection, succinctly defined in the appended claims.

Referring now to the accompanying drawing in which like numerals of reference indicate like parts throughout the several views: Figure 1 is a vertical sectional view of a vat showing my invention in operation, parts being shown in section, and Fig. 2 is a top plan view of my invention removed from the vat.

Reference numeral 1 indicates the vat, such as is commonly used in brewing, provided with a manhole 2 near its bottom.

My improved device comprises what I term a distributer consisting of a hollow head 3 having discharge orifices provided with nozzles 4. Reference numeral 5 indicates suitable legs fixed to said head and having rollers 6 journaled in their lower portions, whereby the device can be easily moved on the bottom wall of the vat. Communicating with head 3 is a pipe 7 which projects without the vat through manhole 2 and has its outer end provided with a flared or funnel shaped mouth 8. An air supply pipe 9 leading from a tank 10 or other suitable source of supply containing air under pressure, projects through the wall of the funnel shaped mouth 8 and has a nozzle 11 arranged to direct the air for discharge through said mouth into pipe 7. I

Suitable means is employed for heating the mouth 8 so that air passing therethrough into pipe 7 will be heated to a high degree of temperature and such air when in a highly heated condition being distributed through nozzles 4, will obviously serve to dry the interior of the lower portion of the vat in an efficient manner. I have also foundby actual practice that the interior of a vat can be dried in a much shorter period of time, through the medium of my improvement, than with stoves which have been in common use prior to my invention.

Any suitable means for heating mouth 8 can be employed, a simple device, however which I have found to be effective, is illustrated at 14, the same consisting of a blow torch of any well known form.

While I have herein disclosed a preferred embodiment of my invention, I reserve the right to make such modifications and changes in the construction thereof as fall within the scope of the appended claims.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States of America, is

1. in a device for drying the interior of vats, means adapted to be arranged for movement within the vat for distributing air therein; apipe leading from said means without the vat and having a funnel shaped mouth, means for heating the mouth of said pipe, and means for directing air under pressure into the mouth of said pipe, for the purpose specified.

2. In a device for drying the interior of vats, an air distributing means adapted to be arranged for movement within the vat and comprising a hollow head provided with a plurality of discharge orifices, a pipe extending from said head without the vat and having a flared month, means to heat the mouth of said pipe, and means to direct air under pressure for discharge into the month of said pipe.

3. In a device for drying the interior of vats, an air dis tributing means adapted to be arranged for movement within the vat and comprising a hollow head provided with a plurality of discharge orifices, a pipe extending from said head without the vat and having a flared mouth, means to heat the mouth of said pipe, and a pipe com municating with a 'source of supply of air under pressure, projecting through the wall of the mouth of said first named pipe and having a discharge nozzle for the purpose specified.

4. In a device for drying the interior of vats, a distributing means adapted to be arranged within the vat and provided with a plurality of discharge orifices, said dis tributing means being supported on rollers, a pipe extending from said distributing means without the vat and being in communication with a source of air supply under pressure, and means to heat the air prior to its delivery into said first means.

Signed at Seattle, Washington this 13th day of February 1907.

JACOB H. BECKMAN.

Witnesses:

ARLITA ADAMS, STEPHEN A. BROOKS. 

